I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
